When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Notice how the bokeh in the foreground is much bigger? It's exaggerated the farther away the ...

Did you know that you can shape the aperture on your lens to create a unique, artistic background? I discovered a simple DIY method to shape the aperture – and the results were mesmerizing. By ...

Last year we showed you how to make your own custom-shaped bokeh highlights—the soft, out-of-focus, points of light in a photo background—and even built our own DIY bokeh rig. Now we're back to test a ...

Bokeh (which translates to "blur" in Japanese) is a photography technique referring to the blurred areas of a photograph. Basic bokeh photographs often have one point of focus, while the background ...

What's a bokeh you say? It's that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects with ...

Bokeh is the out-of-focus specular highlights you see time and again in images such as portraits or still life. It's often achieved by focusing on a subject that’s separated from a concentrated light ...